termux-proot

A sandboxed, 2nd termux, isolated or jailed termux environment with proot

Test something out in sandboxed environment with 0% Afraid of getting bricked in your real termux. Human is curious, Ain't we?

Setup & Installation

Before installing, We need these 3 packages to be installed in your Termux:

• curl for fetching & downloading latest termux bootstrap.
• unzip for unzipping Termux Bootstrap.
• proot for start sandboxed environment.

You may do pkg install [package] to install those required packages.

And finally, set up sandboxed environment:

curl -sLO git.io/termux-proot.sh
chmod +x termux-proot.sh

# Will setup by itself & start sandboxed environment
./termux-proot.sh

Uninstalling

Uninstalling termux-proot is literally, very easy.

rm -rf termux-proot.sh

# The command below can use for reinstalling.
proot -0 rm -rf $PREFIX/../../sandbox

Environmenr Variables

termux-proot also has it's own environment variables and it's changeable. They are:

• TERMUX_SANDBOX_PATH - Path to where Termux sandbox folder located. Default is $PREFIX/../../sandbox
• TERMUX_SANDBOX_APPPATH - A variable that used to simulate Termux app path. Default is /data/data/com.termux/files
• TERMUX_SANDBOX_ENV - A variable that used to reveal a environment variable to guest. Can used like TERMUX_SANDBOX_ENV="FOO=BAR BAR=FOO" ./termux-proot.sh
• TERMUX_SANDBOX_PROOT_OPTIONS - A variable that used to add some proot arguments. Can used like TERMUX_SANDBOX_PROOT_OPTIONS="-b /sdcard" ./termux-proot.sh

Community

• Telegram group